You may or may not be aware of this, but more has been discovered in the last 10 years about performance and achievement psychology than in the 100 years before that.

Albert Einstein, Milton Erickson, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were before their time, yet they paved a way for us to explore this intriguing topic. They knew something that few realised at the time - most of what happens in our life is driven by our SUBCONSCIOUS MINDS.

It’s a fact that more than 95 percent of your ‘neural’ activity is generated by your subconscious mind. You don’t even have to think about breathing, balancing yourself while walking, even driving the car. When the subconscious mind does it’s job, the conscious mind is left to focus on important issues at hand at any given moment; issues such as a conversation, typing a sentence, playing a piece of music, answering the phone or creating a plan.

The truth is we struggle to achieve our goals when our subconscious mind is not in rapport with our conscious mind. When we want something but our beliefs are out of alignment with that, we get what we believe, not that which we desire.

How does this related to business or business leadership?

The challenge for leaders today might be viewed in this way.

There are so many negative influences in the western environment, the subconscious mind is being conditioned in a way that disempowers or limits most people. People are generally so busy and so focused on doing that which is driven by demand and deadlines, they inadvertently fall into a pattern of reaction - proaction becomes difficult to do.

Think about this - when do most people do something about their health or their wealth? That’s right, when its broken. You’ve only got to look at health and wealth statistics to see that I’m right when I say most people have in many ways conditioned a subconscious pattern of reaction to demand.

You as a leader are focused on driving improvement and creating growth in your company or part of the business, but your aspirations beyond some average result are proving difficult to achieve.

Why? Because the weakness of your organisation is the collective limitations of the people in it. Unless the subconscious limitations, or subconscious patterns of thinking of your staff are changed, your aspirations will never be in rapport with the psychology of the people who are there to help you bring those dreams to life.

If you pursue one course of learning in the next year, choose to learn more about the subconscious mind, particularly how it behaves and how neural patterns are created and replaced. This is the domain of the most remarkable leaders this century will produce.

Food for the thoughts of progressive leaders.

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George Lee Sye